Pineapple Step-Ups

1/4 cup pineapple juice

1 tablespoon margarine

1 dessertspoon brown sugar

Pinch ground cloves

1/4 to 1/2 cup diced bacon

2 cups diced veal, or pork, chicken, lamb, etc.

1/2 cup diced onion

1 egg

2/3rds cup fine white breadcrumbs

Salt and pepper

6 rings canned pineapple

Method: Combined in saucepan, 1/4 cup pineapple juice, margarine, brown sugar and cloves. Heat and stir well. Place in bowl diced meat, onion, white breadcrumbs, and mix. Add egg, salt and pepper and combine well. If mixture is too dry, add a little pineapple juice. Then add half contents of saucepan and press mixture together well with fingers. Form into 6 found flat patties, and place one on top of each pineapple ring. Brush baking dish with melted margarine and place Step-ups in dish. Pour remainder of liquid in saucepan over Step-ups. Completely seal dish with sheet of Alfoil. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes at 350F on shelf below centre of oven.

Source: contributed by Mrs. W. Ker in The Possum Cookery Book in Aid of Miss Minda - Telethon (Brighton: Minda Home Auxiliary, n.d. [1960s - post 1963]), p.24.

Coffee Cake (1)

2 cups sugar, 1 cup margarine or substitute, 1 cup treacle or golden syrup, 1 egg, 1 cup strong cold coffee (liquid or instant coffee may be used), 2 tsp carb. soda, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1 cup raisins, 5 cups plain flour (or 4 cups plain flour and 1 cup SR flour), pinch ground cloves.

Method: Cream butter and sugar, add treacle, then the egg and beat well. Add carb. soda to cold coffee and then add to mixture. Sift spices, nutmeg, cinnamon, etc. with flour and add. Lastly add raisins. Bake 350F for approx. 1-1.1/4 hours. This sometimes bakes rather unevenly but is a good standby at shearing time.

Source: contributed by P. Harvie in Booleroo Centre Primary School 1885-1985 Centenary Recipe Book (Revised edition 1985 of 1970 edition), p.77.

The Savoury Balls

1/2 lb self-raising flour

1 teaspoon chopped parsley

1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper

2 to 3 oz. finely chopped suet

A pinch thyme and sage

Water to mix

Method: Mix all the dry ingredients and make into a light dough with cold water. Divide into small balls, roll each in flour, and drop into the boiling stew. The same balls may be cooked with a boiled leg or shoulder of mutton. For a change, add a small minced onion to the above ingredients.

Source: The Possum Cookery Book in Aid of Miss Minda - Telethon (Brighton: Minda Home Auxiliary, n.d. [1960s - post 1963]), p.31.

Cornish Pie

1 lb mince steak, 1 onion, 1/2 lb tomatoes, 1.1/2 cups SR flour, 1 egg, 1 cup milk, 4 oz semi-matured cheese, 1 tsp sugar, pepper and salt to taste.

Method: Slice onion, fry lightly in a little margarine. Add meat, pepper and salt to taste, cook until it changes colour. Thicken with a little flour. Place in casserole, slice tomatoes on top. Sprinkle with sugar, pepper and salt to taste. Make a batter with the flour, egg, milk and a pinch of salt. Pour over meat mixture. Top with grated cheese. Bake 30 mins. in moderate oven.

Source: contributed by E. Corkin in Booleroo Centre Primary School 1885-1985 Centenary Recipe Book (Revised edition 1985 of 1970 edition), p.26.

Economy Meat Loaf

1 lb. finely minced beef steak

1/4 lb. diced bacon

1 cup rolled oats

1 egg

1/4 chopped onion

1 cup cooked tomatoes (can use tinned ones with juice drained off)

1 tspn. salt

1/4 tspn. pepper

1 tspn. mixed mustard

Method: Beat the egg and combine with all the other ingredients, mixing thoroughly. Pack into greased and crumbed ovenware dish and bake in a moderate oven 1 hour. Eat hot or cold.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.94.

Sea Dream Slices

1/2 lb. crushed Biscuits

2&1/2 ozs. Butter

3 ozs. Brown Sugar

1&1/2 tablespoons Cocoa

2 teaspoons Vanilla Essence

1 cup Mixed Fruit

1 dessertspoon Milk

Pinch Salt

Method: Cream butter and sugar together, add crushed biscuits, then cocoa and vanilla, mixed fruit and salt. Mix well, lastly add milk. Form into rolls and cover with coconut. Chill till firm. Cut into slices.

Source: Recipes for Slices and Snacks: Heartbeat Inc. Assistance Group, Adelaide Central Branch (Adelaide: n.d. [early 1980s?]), p.64.

Hawaiian Casserole

3 handfuls chopped lamb or steak

3/4 cup plain flour

1 tin tomato soup

1 tin pineapple, chopped

1 onion, chopped

1/2 cup water

Method: Season lamb and roll in flour. Add all ingredients to casserole dish, give a stir to mix, cover and cook in moderate oven for 1&1/2-2 hours. Check every hour. May need to add more water.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.95.

Witchetty Grubs

1 tin sweetened condensed milk

1 tbspn. golden syrup

Method: Heat together until thick, stirring all the time for 7-10 minutes. Take from heat, add 1 cup crushed cornflakes, 1 cup coconut, 1/4 cup finely cut sultanas, 1/4 cup chopped dates and nuts. Mix together. When cool roll into small finger lengths. Roll in coconut and allow to set firmly before packing.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.153.

Fried Celery

Cut celery into equal lengths, place them in pan, with some bacon pieces, 1/2 pint of water, and a little pepper and salt. Simmer gently for 15 minutes, or a little longer if the celery is large; when cooked take out the celery. Dip them first in beaten egg, and then in breadcrumbs, and fry in dripping. Tomato sauce may be served with this dish. The liquid can be thickened and served in place of tomato sauce.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.27.

Tongue Toast

Grate finely the remains of a tongue and mix it with the yolk of an egg or spoonful of cream, finely chopped parsley, and pepper. Make it very hot, but not boiling, and pour it on fingers of well-buttered toast. Sprinkle thickly with fine breadcrumbs and brown under griller.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.14.

Tomato Creams

Slice some good firm tomatoes. On each slice put a round of ham or tongue and a filetted anchovy cut into strips and laid on in a lattice-work pattern. Whip some cream and flavour it with anchovy and cayenne, and heap a little in the centre of each savoury. Only a rim of the tomato should be left in sight. Garnish with parsley and a little pepper sprinkled on each cream.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.25.

A Delicious Celery Custard

Combine 1 cupful of celery cut in dice with 1 onion finely chopped. Cook both in 1 cupful of milk for five minutes, add salt and pepper, and pour over 2 beaten eggs. Bake in a buttered dish which has been placed in a pan of water for 1 hour.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.13.

Fruit Curry

1 pint of good curry sauce

1 cupful pineapple cut into large cubes

1 cupful peaches cut into thick slices

1 cupful apple cut into dice

Any other fruit desired, making about 4 or 5 cups full

1/4-lb. cooked rice

1 hard-boiled egg yolk

Chopped parsley

1 lemon

Method: Place the fruit in the curry sauce and cooked gently until tender. Arrange the rice in a border on a flat entree dish. Place the curry in the entree [sic], sprinkle a hard-boiled yolk of egg thickly over it, and garnish with thin slices of lemon and finely chopped parsley. Serve hot as an entree or luncheon dish.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.21.

Epicure's Lamb

That shoulder of lamb can be turned into an epicure's delight. Before cooking insert one small clove of garlic in the thickest part near the bone, together with 2 of 3 cloves pressed in here and there. Rub the skin of the lamb with a little olive oil and dust it lightly with sifted flour. Roast in the normal way. When the lamb is about half cooked sprinkle the outside with about 1 dessertspoon of strained orange juice or lemon juice and white table wine, Chablis for preference (1/2 each). Repeat in about 10 minutes, and just before the roast is cooked sprinkle lightly with brown sugar. This burns quickly and imparts a delicious flavour. When making your gravy be sure to pour into it a little of the wine, mixing well, just before serving.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.53.

Celebration Cassata (Heavenly)

2 small bricks ice cream (1 white, 1 chocolate), 2 oz glace cherries, 1 oz mixed peel, 2 oz chopped nuts, 2 Tbls liqueur if desired, 6 chocolate peppermint biscuits, 1 12 oz can chilled Ideal milk, 1/4 cup lemon juice, 1 small can frozen orange juice, 1/2 cup sugar.

Method:

Layer I. Line plastic bowl or pudding basin with chocolate ice cream and place in freezer to harden.

Layer II. Whip Ideal milk very stiff. Gradually add lemon juice and sugar. Fold in frozen orange juice (softened). Partially freeze and cover chocolate ice cream.

Layer III. Crush biscuits, chop nuts and fruit. Mix through softened white ice cream and cover Layer II. Freeze overnight.

Serve in wedges or serve the pudding whole at the table, having covered the pudding with whipped cream and decorated with red and green cherries.

Source: contributed by H. Brooks in Booleroo Centre Primary School 1885-1985 Centenary Recipe Book (Revised edition 1985 of 1970 edition), p.52.

Mock Oysters

To a pint of corn pulp add enough fine breadcrumbs to hold the mixture together. Add 1/2 teaspoon baking powder and sufficient salt and pepper to flavour. Drop the mixture from a teaspoon into hot fat, making each about the size of an oyster. Fry a light brown, drain on paper, and serve hot.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.17.

Cold Jellied Christmas Pudding

1 packet raspberry jelly

1 teaspn cinnamon

1/4 teaspn spice

1 pint hot water

3/4 cup prunes

3/4 cup raisins

1/4 cup almonds

1/4 cup mixed peel

3/4 cup corn flakes (crushed)

1 tablspn brandy

Method: Combine spices with fruit and wine overnight. Partly set jelly, add all other ingredients, reset mixture. Serve with cream or ice cream.

Source: Recipes tested by time... Centenary Cookery Book from 1840 (The Historical Society of Woodville, 1980), p.40.

Preserve Christmas Pudding

1 lb butter, 1 lb brown sugar, 1&1/2 [lb] seeded raisins and sultanas, 1/2 lb mixed fruit peel, 14 oz breadcrumbs, 10 oz plain flour, 4 oz finely chopped almonds, 2 tspn nutmeg, 1 tspn ginger, all spice and cinnamon, 2 small tspn salt, 2 tspn carbonate soda, 8 eggs, 2 tbspn brandy, 1/2 cup milk.

Method: Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs one at a time, add dry ingredients, then brandy and milk. Fill jars 3/4 full. Put on rings, lids and clips and preserve keeping water gently boiling for 4 to 5 hours. Add more boiling water if necessary. Water should be up 3 parts of each bottle throughout. Start off with cold water. Recipe fills 7 to 8 Fowler jars and keeps well.

Source: contributed by Betty Wiech in Blyth Recipe Book: Favourite Tested Recipes of the Blyth Trinity Lutheran Ladies Guild (Blyth Womens Guild, 1972), p.27.

Mock Goose

Grease a pie-dish well with good dripping, leave a few lumps scattered at bootom [sic]; slice a raw cooking apple, sprinkle very little sugar, then put a layer of sage and onion stuffing; on this put a layer of lambs fry, then a layer of bacon and if the dish is deep enough repeat layers; have the top layer slices of raw potato or breadcrumbs with lumps of butter or good dripping on top. Bake 1&1/2 hrs, and serve with gravy.

Source: contributed by Mrs. P. Wittke, Lobethal in The Golden Wattle Cookery Book. Compiled by Ladies of the Kindergarten Committee. In aid of Kindergarten Funds. (Lobethal: 1948), p.7

Festive Slice

2 cups crushed Biscuits

1/2 cup chopped Crystallised Pineapple

1 cup Peel, Cherries and Nuts mixed

1/2 cup each Raisins, Sultanas and chopped Dates

3 tablespoons Sherry

Pinch Salt

1/2 teaspoon each Cinnamon and Nutmeg

3 tablespoons Honey

3 ozs. Copha

Method: Add melted Copha to all other ingredients mixed well together. Press into slab tin lined with greaseproof paper. Place in refrigerator and when firm cut into fingers.

Source: Recipes for Slices and Snacks: Heartbeat Inc. Assistance Group, Adelaide Central Branch (Adelaide: n.d. [early 1980s?]), p.64

Broken Hill Pudding

(use as Xmas pudding)

2 cups S R flour

1 cup raw sugar

1 dstspn carb soda dissolved in 1 cup boiling water

1 cup currants/dates or figs

little lemon essence & peel

1 lge tblspn butter

2 tblspns jam

Method: For richer pudding add sherry[,] mashed banana or grated apple. Mix all together & boil or steam for 2&1/2 hours.

Source: contributed by Judy McIntyre in Cook Book: St Joseph's School, Clare (Clare: St Joseph's School, 1991), p.69.

Spaghetti Mince

1 finely chopped onion

minced, cooked meat, approx. 2 cups

1 tin tomato soup

1 tin tomato puree or tomato supreme

Worcestershire sauce to taste

pinch curry powder (optional)

3 cups cooked spaghetti or pasta

Method: Mix well and place in casserole dish. Warm through approx. 30 mins. mod. oven.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.101.